Kite-body.



m. 7|2, so3. Patented Nov. 4; 1902.

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KITE BODY.

A u mdn filed Feb. 9, 1901.

.A TTOHNE Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL SCHNEIDER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR .TO ED- WARDSTERN & COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA, ACORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

KlTE-BODY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,603, dated.November 4, 1902.

Application filed February 9, 1901. Serial No. 46,606. (No model.)

To a, whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Kite-Bodies, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

'0 My invention has for its object to produce a kite-body which shallhave a single integral frame, holding the paper taut without the use ofcross-sticks and to which the flyingstrings may be directly applied; andit con- 5 sists in constructing a kite-body from a single strip of woodor other like material which may be fixedly bent into the requisite formwith the ends brought down into parallel planes and glued together alongthe line of junction of said ends, coveriug one side of the frame abovethe united ends with paper glued over the edge of the frame-strip, andpuncturing holes in the paper for the reception of the cross-bodyflying-strings, whereby they may be tied to the frame.

In the drawings illustrating my new kitebody, Figure 1 is a plan viewfrom the front or paper side, showing the frame in dotted lines. Fig. 2is a planview of the opposite 30. side, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section online 1 2 of Fig. 1. v

The single integral bent frame of the device is represented at A in theseveral figures, and

I prefer to make it of strips of Wood by taking thin planks and bendingthem into the curved shape shown in Fig. 2 by such means that will leavethem fixedly bent into that strips while in that fixedly-bent form.

shape and then sawing them into narrow Preferably the ends a aare gluedtogether before the sawing; but that may, however, be done afterward.The kite-body is then completed by stretching over' the frame a thinsheet of paper (indicated at B) of the required shape, folding the edgesthereof around the frame, and gluing the same thereto. Incisions aremade in the paper contiguous to the frame and at suitable places, asindicated at b b b b in Figs. 1 and 2, to enable the body-strings to besecured to the frame.

.The device constructed as described is simple and strong, economical toproduce, and is practically one integral structure.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- A kite-body consisting of the frame composed of asingle strip of light material capable of being fixedly bent into therequisite shape, the terminal ends thereof glued or otherwise securedtogether and extended beyond the meeting-points of the bent portions ofthe frame to form a basal or handle end, and a covering of paper securedto the frame above the said basal or handle end, said paper coveringbeing punctured at suitable places contiguous to the frame.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature this 24Eth dayof January,

A. D. 1901. i

CARL SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses:

'ANDREW' V. GROUPE,

H. T. FENTON.

